Territory that MIGHT be a little more familiar
Is everybody ready for another round? Here we go, with several views of a particularly lovely body of water:
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...s/DSC_6801.jpg
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...s/DSC_6803.jpg
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...s/DSC_6806.jpg
This might be a bay, a fjord, a lake, possibly even a river! My lips are sealed, because I want you to name that well-known body of water so that you can tell me, please:
Where am I?
And while you're at it, name the road that runs alongside this--whatever it is. Give us the official name, the nickname, or the Number. (Any or all of the above will count as a correct answer.)
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...s/DSC_6831.jpg
Last but certainly not least: a cryptic clue! There's a single word visible in this photograph, a single word that MIGHT be the key to the whole business! But--do you suppose I might have scrambled up the letters to make it a little tougher? Maybe--it wouldn't be the first time! (Hey, I said this clue was cryptic--as in, puzzling, or secret!)
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To recap:
Name the body of water
Name the road
For bonus points: Explain the significance of the roadside memorial (the cryptic clue).
This will either be super hard, or super easy. I'll be curious to see which!
Rick
This one's a real puzzler!
Here's a better look at that cryptic clue:
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...cale-2_00x.jpg
Two letters have been transposed. If you can figure out the proper sequence, you can Google it to unlock the puzzle.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Rick Quinn
Rick
Two more clues (if only to keep this thing going):
Time to break out the good silver:
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...verPlatter.jpg
The body of water is a Lake; and the road is a well-known Highway.
I'm not sure I could make it any easier! (But you'll still need to unscramble the sign at that roadside memorial ;-)
Rick
Warmish? But no cigar....
Quote:
Originally Posted by
glc
I can't figure out the roadside memorial, but here's a wild guess based on nothing: Silver Lake in WA, Spirit Lake Memorial Highway?
Kudos for the attempt, but no, not quite. Let's say you started out at Silver Lake, Washington: it would take you the best part of a week to get to this particular Where am I location. And the mystery lake is a bit bigger: approximately forty times the size of Silver Lake, making it the largest lake within the borders of the area where it's located.
(All that should narrow it down some!)
Rick
I didn't know it would do that!
That was what you call a slow pitch, right over the plate. Google is getting so darned sophisticated, it actually shocks me from time to time. You might recall that I had that back and forth dialogue with Utahtea recently, about picture searches? I try not to make this game too easy, so I've taken to "pre-testing" my clues before I post them, by dropping each picture into the search bar on Google Images. Most of the photos in this set returned results like :"mountain," or "clouds," or "lake," but when I tested that last picture, it not only identified the location, it identified the specific photograph, and tracked it right straight back to me! I had no idea that it would do that, so I was honestly a bit taken aback.
Thank you, glc, for participating in my little experiment. Google has a way of prioritizing search results for individual users, and I had to wonder if it might be showing me my own website through some behind-the-scenes connection in my browsing history. When you did the search and got the same results as me, that proved that it wasn't personal: Google really was identifying my photograph, out of all the billions of images on the web, and that really is amazing!
Just for the heck of it, I tried running a search on a different version of the photograph: exactly the same image, but a little sharper contrast, and brighter colors. The result of that search was yet another surprise! Try if for yourself, if you're curious: right click each of these two pictures, then "save image as," and then drag and drop into the Google Image search bar:
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...C_6797-137.jpg
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...ploads/2-1.jpg
All of which proves that Google has good taste, since version #1 is clearly the better of the two. I try not to think too hard about the sheer computing power required to make a match like that in 6/10 of a second. It freaks me out, just a little, and it makes my brain hurt...
Rick
